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1. MS Flight Simulator - tell me any other flight simulator which even comes close to this one. MS Flight Simulator is the best flight sim period. there are so many features on this one that no one else in the business has. Microsoft games are some of the best. They are not copies.
I do not think you have experienced any other flight simulators other than Microsoft, and i do not think you have any pilot friends to help you decide which is more realistic.
MS flight simulator might have all the eye candy you could want - it does show you tyre smoke, moving parts in the aircraft, etc etc.... these are not features, but basically eye candy, which actually screws up the 'realism' in the simulation, by taking out all the power on your graphics adapter.
Do you really think a Cessna is as easy to fly in real life as it is in MS??? Believe me, it is not.
Even the way MS calculates the behaviour of the aircraft, and its flight models are totally flawed, as it only uses standard aircraft data, and not all the external factors which might affect flight.
Yes, you can improve all these things in MS, but only by buying third party software which again costs a bomb.
Lets compare it to Flight Gear..
Flight Gear does not have as much eye candy, but when it comes to 'realistic' simulation, nothing beats flight gear. The reason behind this is that flight gear basically calculates the flight characteristics by simulating air flow on a realistic aircraft model.
Secondly, flight gear is free... its open source and is under continual development. It has a larger aiport Database, it has more aircrafts available and it almost has the same eye candy effects, and all that it does not have yet, it will have soon, as it is Open Source and thousands around the world are developing it.
So, try downloading Flight Gear, install it and run it and feel the difference of flying a 'real' Flight SImulator, and not a piece of commercial crap like MS Flight Simulator(aka "game")
As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts in this same thread. the idea of context sensitive menus (on right clicking) appeared first on MS operating systems. It was not copied from anyone.
You may have heard about Interleaf which in the mid-80s may have invented context-sensitive popups. Microsoft has yet to implement one piece of what Interleaf did: Intelligent defaults. So, if you just cut something, the popup would default to "Paste." In most cases, it defaulted to "repeat the action last performed when in this state," e.g., change font if text is selected and insert comment if none is selected. A right-mouse click would launch the popup to the default selection without having to manually retraverse the tree. A simple right click-and-release would execute the default action so experienced users who'd learned the defaults could click through tasks without even having to see the menus.
Old unix windowing interfaces like motif already had context sensitive menus although not as devloped as windows - buts thats from a long time back.
MS makes some of the best input devices, whether they be keyboards & mice or gamepads. They are simply the best.
you are right some of the best, compared to what? logitech? whats so innovative ???
more buttons? "optical mouse blue" or "optical mouse red" ?? cool shape? split in two??? QWERTY layout from a hundred years ago??? give me a break . cant you come up with something better?
heres some _innovative_ mice and keyboards for you - not from microsoft although theyll soon copy them!!!
*www.extremetech.com/article2/0,397...xtremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1039254,00.asp
(keyboard)
*www.virtualdevices.net/ just look at this keyboard!!!! Why doesn't microsoft buy that company next????
MS was also the firt to come up with the CD autorun feature. You just insert the CD, the program automatically starts. No one else had this prior to MS. (In Linux, even after inserting the disc, you have to manually mount it to even read it, lol)
Your information about linux is wrong. Try some distro after redhat 7.2. Ever heard of super mount??
So many cd players have autoplay from so long. remember when "multimedia kits" where introduced in india. Creative iinfra suite was a software that allowed cds to autoplay!! musch before this feature was built into windows 95!!
5. Heard of corona, the technology behind Windows media Player?. One of the best, if not the best codec
Ok so corona is good. But all those highly paid guys at microsoft have to do something besides making new bugs!!!
If you give such reasons for the short comings of Linux, then many such reasons can also be given for the shortcommings of MS
the reasons are totally different!!! Microsoft charges money! Linux doesn't have to.
If you pay money you expect a decent stable bugfree operating sytem.
The money you pay to microsoft lets you just boot the pc and nothing else. you have to shell out a lot more before it becomes really useful!!
besides MS never apologizes or explains its shortcomings. They are just there and they will be fixed as and when ms thinks its time.
try this.
in your fantastic XPee system make a folder called "notepad" on your desktop. then go to internet explorer and rightclick and select view source.
See what happens.
Do you know how long its been around????
try with any older version of windows and youll find out.
This is what you get for your money!!!!
Lets simply keep the discussion about the end products.
Ignore all the history.
Now what are so many big companies putting their weight behind linux??
Surely the people there who make these descisions know more that you and i?
the only thing that easy to do in Linux is the installation!
Then whats so difficult? The lack of opportunities to reinstall your OS?
theory:
You know all those splash screens that flash by when you reinstall windows tend to reprogram the lame user whos sitting in front of the pc at that time. Its an evil microsoft strategy!!!
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